INS delays tracking foreign students

MIAMI, FLORIDA — The Immigration and Naturalization Service gave the nation's colleges and universities an extra two weeks to begin feeding information about their foreign students into a new Internet database. The immigration agency said the new Feb. 15 deadline would allow schools to make sure their computers could link to INS equipment.

The INS had set a Thursday deadline for 3,000 schools to start supplying data to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.